Most People Get Networking Wrong – Are You Winning or Losing at Networking?
In general, networking to increase sales quickly can often be a frustrating undertaking. It seems, the more hungry you are for the sale, the less effective your networking activities will prove to be. Many professionals join their local Chamber of Commerce or business-networking group, and are initially excited at the prospects. But the unfortunate reality is that these groups often don’t live up to expectations; so we quit and look for another way to drive sales to our business.
Sheila Anderson: What is Your Powerful Image? Simple Tips for Improving Your Authentic Brand
Learn how you can remain authentic while still presenting yourself in the best possible way in this interview with Sheila Anderson, a certified corporate image consultant with over 20 years’ experience in the corporate world.
Listen as Sheila talks about the importance of personal branding, especially in today’s modern society. She relates, in particular, the need to be true to who you are in order to be more memorable. She also discusses the importance of the impression you make in 7 seconds and about the first 12 words you use with a person.
How A Placebo Effect Actually Improves Sales
Perception can actually become reality. There is something very powerful about psychological placebos that we may want to take into account both personally and professionally.
If I tell you that you look great in that suit – do you actually look better than you did before? The stories we hear about ourselves, tell ourselves, and the stories others tell about us (whether true or not) can have remarkable results. Physically and mentally we change based on what we believe to be true.
Lih Fang Chew: Breaking Multiple Barriers With Discipline And Confidence
In this interview, hear from Lih Fang Chew, Global Vice President of Marketing at Quadion, as she talks about her experiences in breaking the glass ceiling and moving through different fields to experience numerous successes and achievements.
Listen as she talks about her growth and development when she shifted careers, from graduating as an electrical engineer, to becoming a marketing expert for a well-established industrial company.
Lih Fang also relates her own thoughts and encounters regarding gender and cultural stereotypes.
Marie Rand: Changing The Course of Living & Giving in Non-Profits and Broadway
In this episode, Marie Rand, co-founder and managing director of phaware global association and manager of a Broadway production company, talks about the steps she has been taking to bring global awareness to pulmonary hypertension (PH), a complex lung disease which currently has no cure.
She relates her own fight for her daughter’s life against the disease, and how she has been helping the PH community by bringing her expertise into the nonprofit field.
